Kindy v. Hayes

Respondents’ brief begins with this statement:

“The correct answers to the several questions involved on this appeal hinge upon a recognition and acknowledgment that the status of the practice of optometry in Wisconsin ... is that of a mechanical art or craft, as contrasted to the holding in some states that the practice constitutes a profession.”

Attention is then called to a 1940 case, a quo warranto proceeding instituted to prevent a corporation from practicing optometry, in which optometry is held to be “. . . a skilled calling . . .’’.but not “. . . a profession involving a relation of…